[pgsql-jobs] Looking for a PostgreSQL Senior Database Administrator!

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Hello All,

Here's more information following my email yesterday!

I work for Sony Computer Entertainment America and am currently recruiting for a Senior Database Administrator, specifically with PostgreSQL database experience.  This is a regular, full-time position located in Foster City, CA.

If you are interested please email me your resume directly to: sarah_farmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Or if you know anyone who would be a good fit for this role, feel free to share my contact information.
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Senior Database Administrator
Sony Computer Entertainment America
R&D Department
Foster City, CA


The Senior Database Administrator an individual contributor who is a hands-on DBA for online gaming, multi-media and other entertainment services. The candidate must be an experienced database administrator with a good understanding of the needs of the different database architectures including enterprise grade data warehouses.  In particular, the candidate must know the ins and outs of PostgreSQL databases.

Responsibilities:

-Requires a solid background in administrating and deploying a large scale online system
-Strong communicator and be capable of moving forward technical issues to resolution in a fast paced, startup-like environment
-Must be self driven and able to establish processes and best practices from scratch
-Assist developers in application data modeling
-Participate in planning and design of the database architecture for large scale, production quality services
-Work in pre-production environments to come with strategies and architectures for high availability, monitoring, database security, and backup
-Day to day management activities of production databases for online system operations: monitoring, troubleshooting, backup, restore, change management, database upgrades & installs -Help set database and data warehouse technical direction and drive changes to improve operations, performance and scalability

Qualifications:

-Able to interact well with fellow operations team and engineering team members
-Capable of clearly communicating and negotiating technical issues individually and in a group setting
-Experience in participating in an agile to light weight development process in a start-up like environment
-Process activities include daily stand-up discussions, iterative, ongoing development work with goal oriented deliveries
-Must be pro-active to establish best practices for database activities if none already exist
-This candidate should have excellent database and data warehouse skills with a focus on PostgreSQL
-Candidate needs to be highly experienced in general database (stored procedures, triggers), data warehouse (design, modeling, ETL processes) and supporting business intelligence and reporting work
-Excellent written and verbal English skills are required
-Candidate must be able to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively in a timely and professional manner with a variety of internal and external personnel in multiple
-Must be pro-active in documenting work
-Experience in enterprise grade database deployments and administration
-Must have experience in high data volume environment
-Understanding and having experience with software product delivery for game console, consumer electronics or embedded systems is a plus

Required Experience / Education:

-Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
-At least 6 years experience as a database administrator, including time spent working in enterprise grade environments
-PostgreSQL: Must have knowledge of enterprise applications running with PostgreSQL backends
-Data warehouse skills: data warehouse design, data modeling, ETL processes
-Hands on troubleshooting skills
-Reporting software tools experience such as Crystal Reports or BIRT required
-Experience with Linux/UNIX systems and scripting knowledge (shell and Python) required
-Must be able to automate database maintenance, ETL and reporting processes

Preferred Experience / Education:

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At least 4 years experience with high volume data environments is highly desired
-Familiarity with Java/Python based O-R mapping solutions desirable
-Familiarity with Java EE and Python application frameworks is a strong plus


It is the policy of Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. (SCEA) to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. SCEA does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. SCEA also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled employees.


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